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APPLIOATIUN FILED SEPT. 15, 1902.

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JAMES A. POOLE, OF AKRON, OHIO.

CHAPLET-POINTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,023, dated January 6, 1903.

Application iiled September 15, 1902. Serial No. 123,470. (No model.)

To all whom, t 11m/y concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. POOLE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio,

have invented a'certain new and useful Improvement in Chaplet-Pointers, of which the following is a complete specification.

My invention has relation to improvements whereby chaplets used by melders are pointed. These chaplets when iirst produced have the general appearance of large flat-headed wire spikes having blunt ends, which ends are afterward beveled on two sides by cutting away the material to form points.

The objects of my invention are to produce a simple and eifective machine by which these chaplets may be pointed, which machine shall be susceptible of fadapt-ation to chaplets of diiferent sizes and lengths and which machine shall have apt means for rapid and accurate adjustment to differentlengths and sizes of chaplets.

To the accomplishment of the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-numerals indicate like parts in the dilferent views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my machine; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2 at the line a: w; and Figs. 4 and 5, full-sized chaplets cut, respectively, on one and two sides.

Referring to the figures, 1 is a bed sustained at one end by a support 2 and integral with and supported by one member 3 of the shearing apparatus, that is in turn sustained by a support 4.

In the upper face of the bed 1 is a semicircular longitudinal trough 5, at one side of which is a iiat ledge 6, in which is a longitudinal slot 7, extending 'nearly its entire length, beyond which is a raised ledge 8, graduated for a purpose to be stated. On the opposite side of the trough is a lower ledge 9, having at its outer edge a raised rib 10. Fitted to slide on the ledges 6 9 is a carriage 11, arranged to be retained at any distance alongthe table by a setscrew l2, that runs in the slot 7.

` T being bored and internally screw-threaded to receive a binding-screw 14, having a han die by which it may be turned to cause the screw to bind the chaplet in the carriage.

The reduced ends of the cross of the T are revolubly'retained in the carriage by side straps 15, secured to the carriage by screws, as shown. For accuracy of adjustment the carriage may and preferably has an arrow 16 or other equivalent index lo run along the graduation-marks of the ledge 8.

The shearing device hereinbefore referred to consists of a fixed blade 17 and a movable blade 18, secured to an angular rocking arm 19, the upper member of which bears a segmental rack 20 and is jourualed in a housing 2l of the support.. From the housing 2l rises an integral support 22, in the upper end of which is journaled alever 24, bearing at its lower end a hooded gear 25, that meshes in the rack 20.

In operation a spike 26 to be cut into a chaplet is placed in the carriage 11 and secured" by the screw 14, and the upper jaw of the shear being raised is moved forward to a determined position regulated by the pointer 16, thus bringing its point over the blade 17, the screw 14 being horizontal, as indicated in solid lines in Fig. 3. The lever 24 is then rocked down, thus shearing away one side of the point, as shown in Fig. 4. The shear-blade 18 is then raised and the screw 14 raised to a vertical position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3,

- and the shear-blade 1S again brought down, lcutting off another side of the point of the chaplet, as shown in Fig. 5. Another side of the point may, if desired, be cut away in the same way, and when completed the chaplet is removed and another interposed.

Havingthus described my invention, Vwhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i f 1. Animprovedchaplet-pointerembodying a horizontal bed with a carriage mounted to Aslide thereon, having a clamp to grasp and IOO carry a chaplet to be pointed, said clamp, being capable of partial rotation in said bed, and a shearing device connected with said bed adapted to successively diagonally shear away portions of the end of said chaplet, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination in a chaplet-pointer of a bed, a longitudinal groove in said bed, a graduated scale adjacent to said bed, a slot extending substantially parallel and nearly the entire distance of said groove, a carriage adapted to slide on said bed, means to operate in said slot to fasten said carriage at a desired point, a clamp capable of rotation mounted in said carriage to hold the chaplet to be pointed, a cutting-head mounted at an angle to said bed provided with means to severa portion of said chaplet, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination in a chaplet-pointer, of a bed, a groove therein to receive the head of the chaplet to be pointed, Va slot parallel with said groove, a carriage mounted on said bed, means passing through said slot to retain said carriage in a desired place, a rotatable clamp in said carriage to hold said chaplet, an integral cutting-head at one end of said bed involving a swinging knife having a segmental rack, and means to operate it, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination in a machine of the class designated, of a horizontal bed provided with a groove to receive the head 'of the chaplet to be pointed, a slot parallel with and adjacent to said groove, a carriage sliding on said bed, means to fasten said carriage at a determinate point on said bed, a rotatable clamp on said carriage to hold said chaplet, a cutter-head integral with said bed, a swinging knife in said cutter-head provided With a segmental rack, and a pinion adapted to mesh in said segmental rack, and a lever to revolve said pinion, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES A. POOLE.

In presence of- C. P. HUMPHREY, C. E. HUMPHREY. 

